Description

EVT (Edition Visualization Technology) is a light-weight, open source tool specifically designed to create digital editions from texts encoded according to the TEI XML schemas and Guidelines, freeing the scholars from the burden of web programming and enabling the final users to browse, explore and study digital editions by means of a user-friendly interface. The need for more flexibility and modularity led to a completely new infrastructure, based on MVC design pattern. The XSLT stylesheets have been abandoned in favor of a set of JavaScript parsers specifically written to retrieve edition content directly from the XML file. Edition data is then saved in a JSON structure, organized in such a way that it can be easily and rapidly accessed when needed. The final styling of documents is entrusted to CSS style-sheets and is easily customizable.